All underprivileged synonyms
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U u adj underprivileged
- dirt poor — lacking nearly all material means or resources for living.
- flat broke — having no money
- depressed — If you are depressed, you are sad and feel that you cannot enjoy anything, because your situation is so difficult and unpleasant.
- disadvantaged — lacking the normal or usual necessities and comforts of life, as proper housing, educational opportunities, job security, adequate medical care, etc.: The government extends help to disadvantaged minorities.
- in-solvent — not solvent; unable to satisfy creditors or discharge liabilities, either because liabilities exceed assets or because of inability to pay debts as they mature.
- deprived — Deprived people or people from deprived areas do not have the things that people consider to be essential in life, for example acceptable living conditions or education.
- beggared — a person who begs alms or lives by begging.
- down and out — downward; going or directed downward: the down escalator.
- necessitous — destitute or impoverished; needy; indigent: to aid a necessitous young mother.
- lagging — one of the staves or strips that form the periphery of a wooden drum, the casing of a steam cylinder, or the like.
- backward — A backward movement or look is in the direction that your back is facing. Some people use backwards for this meaning.
- lowborn — of humble birth.
- moneyless — any circulating medium of exchange, including coins, paper money, and demand deposits.
adjective underprivileged
- humble — not proud or arrogant; modest: to be humble although successful.
- impecunious — having little or no money; penniless; poor.
- fortuneless — Unlucky, unfortunate.
- needy — in a condition of need or want; poverty-stricken; impoverished; extremely poor; destitute.
- impoverished — reduced to poverty.